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Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:26:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0By: Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Pearl Harbor + 73http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-464001
Sun, 07 Dec 2014 14:54:45 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-464001[…] Bookworm’s post and video from 2009 and her post from 2011; also, some alternate history from Shannon […]
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Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:04:08 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-149385[...] Bookworm’s post and video from 2009 and her post from 2011; also, some alternate history from Shannon [...]
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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:19:17 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83863With the theme of secrets and ships going down, here are two videos that reflect that time. Here is a WW2 cartoon that warns that “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” Or at least one of the headers talks about loose lips. Whateverhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjRPY8Op8Xc

Here is a Portuguese group interpreting Duke Ellington’s “A Slip of the Lip Can Sink a Ship. YouTube does not have the Ellington version, but tonight I am listening to an Ellington CD that contains the Ellington version of the song

I didn’t find out until after my mother’s death that she had a boyfriend who went down with the Arizona. Our aunt told us the special nickname the sailor had given my mother. I think we discovered a letter from the sailor in a scrapbook that our grandmother saved. One of the secrets that went down with the ship, I guess- at least as regards our mother not telling us anything.

With the theme of secrets and ships going down, here are two videos that reflect that time. Here is a WW2 cartoon that warns that “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” Or at least one of the headers talks about loose lips. Whatever.

Here is a Portuguese group interpreting Duke Ellington’s “A Slip of the Lip Can Sink a Ship. YouTube does not have the Ellington version, but tonight I am listening to an Ellington CD that contains the Ellington version of the song

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I didn’t find out until after my mother’s death that she had a boyfriend who went down with the Arizona. Our aunt told us the special nickname the sailor had given my mother. I think we discovered a letter from the sailor in a scrapbook that our grandmother saved. One of the secrets that went down with the ship, I guess- at least as regards our mother not telling us anything.

With the theme of secrets and ships going down, here are two videos that reflect that time. Here is a WW2 cartoon that warns that “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” Or at least one of the headers talks about loose lips. Whatever.

Here is a Portuguese group interpreting Duke Ellington’s “A Slip of the Lip Can Sink a Ship. YouTube does not have the Ellington version, but tonight I am listening to an Ellington CD that contains the Ellington version of the song

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:39:40 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83838Book, I had the opportunity to serve with, and get to know, a Pearl Harbor survivor in the mid-60s. He was in the signal tower when the attack occurred. The signal tower controlled ship traffic into and out of Pearl, and sat on top of a huge water tank. So, he had a prime birds-eye view of the whole thing.
As you know, from time immemorial, Navies have used flag hoists to signal between ships. There was a sequence of flags that stood for “air raid”; but the signalmen on duty could not remember the sequence under the pressure of the moment, so they hoisted the alphabetical flags that spelled out “Air Raid”. I doubt seriously that anyone was in doubt about the status, or was focused on the signal tower at that time.
My wife remembers what she was doing when the news came over of the attack. I don’t recall. I am sure that on a Sunday afternoon I was very busy playing cowboys and Indians. Not long after that our games became Marines vs Japs.
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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:57:30 +0000http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83837Observe today: